History Quiz #462
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Q1. In mid August 2017 the yachts Bagheera and the Snow Dragon II, with a crew of 10 and a dog called Fukumi, sailed on what expedition?
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Q2. The Arctic Council, established in 1996, consists of 8 member states, which are Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, the United States of America and which other?
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Q3. Which was the first city in the southern hemisphere and the second in the world after Philadelphia to integrate electric street lights into its infrastructure in September 1882?
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Q4. Which of these quotes is ascribed to the Swiss physician, Paracelsus (1493-1541)?
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Q5. Which ancient country to the south west of the Caspian Sea had rulers called Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares and Astyages?
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Q6. Which Spanish monarch was deposed in 1868 after 35 years of reigning, and finally abdicated in 1870?
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Q7. The city of Rome in what is now Italy was successively the capital for the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and what next?
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